After finally dawning, the Chief of Staff finally walked into the tent where the command center was located with a pair of dark circles.

"Have you found out?" Ono asked calmly at the Chief of Staff.

"General, you have found out! Although the Eighth Route Army took back the third line of defense and the mountain highlands at night, they did not stick to it. The reconnaissance troops we sent were recapturing these two positions. However, the mines left by the Eighth Route Army caused us more than 20 casualties to the Imperial Army!"

"According to the memories of the seriously injured people living on the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain without knowing what methods they used."

"Because the troops hiding on the mountaintop are stationed on the mountainside positions, there are not many people left on the top of the mountain. The Eighth Route Army, which suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain, easily occupied the top of the mountain, and then threw grenades and grenades at the troops stationed on the mountainside positions from a high place!"

"The Eighth Route Army attacked us from a high point. Although the warriors fought to the death, they could not withstand the unilateral massacre of the Eighth Route Army Independent Corps."

"Less than half an hour after the battle began, our troops stationed in the top of the mountain had to retreat!"

Ono suddenly interrupted: "Then the Eighth Route Army followed us to retreat troops and fought all the way to the third line of defense!"

"Hi!" the chief of staff replied with his head down.

"Baga, have you figured out how the Eighth Route Army reached the top of the mountain? Why did our troops stationed on the mountainside not appear?" Ono stared at the chief of staff and continued to question.

The Chief of Staff shook his head and replied: "No, the reconnaissance troops have been inspecting for nearly two hours but no one has been found!"

It turned out that in order to prevent the tunnels left by the engineer company on the other two high grounds from being discovered by the Japanese, Wang Ping directly asked someone to blow up the entrance and exit of the tunnel when he retreated.

Adding some other hands and feet, it looks no different from a crater.

Unless the Japanese dig down one or two meters deep, the tunnel will never be visible.

However, it is obviously impossible to let the Japanese reconnaissance troops dig every crater on the battlefield so deep.

Therefore, how the Independence Group quietly touched the top of the mountain, for the Japanese, it became an eternal secret.

Seeing the chief of staff lowering his head, the angry Ono wanted to cut him with a knife.

After waiting in the command center for so long, the Chief of Staff did not even understand the most important issue. How could he not make him angry?

With anger, he smashed the thing on the bullet box in front of him and shouted loudly.

"Avenge, so many warriors died on the battlefield and died at the hands of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment. As their brigade commander, we must avenge this revenge!"

"Chief of Staff, assemble troops immediately and have breakfast. Then call for air support. An hour later, I will attack the fourth line of defense of the Independent Regiment, and kill to their base before noon, fight them to the decisive battle with them, and wipe them out!"

"Hi!" replied loudly to the Chief of Staff, who was also full of anger at the Independent Corps.

But he did not leave immediately, but answered hesitantly: "But, General, there is a problem we must solve!"

"Otherwise, today's attack will not be able to fight at all!"

Ono frowned and stared at the Chief of Staff and asked: "What else is there? Let me tell you that no matter what the problem is, it cannot stop the entire Imperial Corps from being wiped out today, and I cannot stop my revenge on the warriors who died in battle!"

"It's the force, our strength is insufficient!" The Chief of Staff hesitated to answer.

"Although we entered the mountain, there were more than 6,000 troops, the combat troops only had three infantry brigades, one regiment of the Imperial Army, and the brigade command guards!"

"Yesterday's attack plus the damage to the battle last night, we have lost two entire infantry brigades, and one regiment of the Imperial Army has also suffered almost all!"

"Now we can only use an infantry brigade to attack, and there is no coordinated operation of the Imperial Army."

"If you attack rashly, even if you can break through the remaining three defense lines of the independent regiment, the remaining troops will not be able to fight the remaining troops with the remaining troops?"

"Why just report such a big thing now!" Ono stared at the chief of staff and asked sternly.

The failures on the continuous battlefield have made him feel disappointed and dissatisfied with the deputy chief of staff.

If he can't give himself a satisfactory explanation, Ono wouldn't mind using this matter to ask the Military Department for the removal of the Chief of Staff.

You should know that lying and deliberately postponing military information are fatal mistakes that are absolutely not allowed to be made for military commanders.

The Chief of Staff also realized Ono's anger and did not dare to hide it at all. He immediately said all his thoughts without missing a word.

After listening to the explanation, Ono felt a sense of powerlessness as he punched the cotton.

The reason why the Chief of Staff conceals and fails to report is for himself.

In the end, he could only suppress his anger and cursed: "Chief of Staff, do you know that because of your delay, we will have to wait at least half a day before we can continue to attack the independent regiment!"

"Immediately send a telegram to our troops outside the mountain, and ask the Second Regiment of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army of a squadron to enter the mountain to reinforce us!"

"As soon as the reinforcements arrive, we will immediately send troops to attack the fourth line of defense of the Independent Regiment."

The Chief of Staff couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After wiping the cold sweat that appeared on his forehead, he realized that he had avoided this disaster.

He did not dare to be negligent at all and immediately replied: "Please rest assured, General, I will give orders immediately!"

"Also, in Xiamen, Beishi will definitely not disappoint the general. After the reinforcements arrive, at most three hours, you will be commanded to reach the independent regiment's headquarters!"

"Yo Xi!" Ono finally chose to give the Chief of Staff another chance. After all, he had been with him for several years and had always performed very well before.

Although the enemy command center of the Independent Regiment did not rest all night, Wang Ping was not sleepy at all at this time. Because the staff officer just delivered the losses to him last night.

Faced with the bloody casualties, he was so heartbroken that he couldn't sleep at all.

The Second Battalion, together with the Guard Company and the Third Battalion firepower company, had more than 600 people in front of them, and the Chief of Staff took more than 200 people away, and nearly 400 people were taken away by himself. In the end, less than half of those who came back alive were even alive.

The Chief of Staff was a little better because he did not capture it at close range with the Japanese army, and the losses were less. In the end, nearly 130 people were withdrawn alive.

But even so, there were about 30 seriously injured among the 130 people, with more than half of them losing.

The most casualties were the troops he led. There were about 250 people alone, and there were more than 30 seriously injured people. There were only more than 130 people who came back without any damage.

"Chief of Staff, that is, in one night, we sacrificed 350 soldiers alone, and with the severely injured, we lost more than 400 people."

"Yes, regiment commander!" the chief of staff replied with his head down.

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